@article{Asongu_418,
author = {& Biekpe N Asongu S. A.},
url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11066-017-9118-6},
doi = {10.1007/s11066-017-9118-6},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-09-30},
journal = {Netnomics},
abstract = {This study investigates government quality determinants of ICT adoption using Generalised Method of Moments on a panel of 49 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries for the period 2000-2012. ICT is measured with mobile phone penetration, internet penetration and telephone penetration rates while all governance dimensions from the World Bank Governance Indicators are considered, namely: political governance (consisting of political stability and “voice & accountability”); economic governance (entailing government effectiveness and regulation quality) and institutional governance (encompassing the rule of law and corruption-control). The following findings are established. First, political stability and the rule of law have positive short-run and negative long-term effects on mobile phone penetration. Second, the rule of law has a positive (negative) short-run (long-term) effect on internet penetration. Third, government effectiveness and corruption-control have positive short-run and long-term effects on telephone penetration. Institutional governance appears to be most significant in determining ICT adoption in SSA.},
keywords = {Africa, Govenance, ITC},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}